Withdrawal from Afghanistan ‘unnecessarily messy’ – former MI6 chief

Sir Alex Younger (Andrew Milligan/PA)

A former MI6 chief has described the withdrawal from Afghanistan as “unnecessarily messy” and “unnecessarily self-harming”.

Alex Younger, who left the UK’s foreign intelligence service last year, said he did not question the broader strategy of withdrawal, which he described as “inevitable”, but was critical of how it was done.